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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Robert Herrick was born in London, in 1591, the seventh child of a prosperous goldsmith. He graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1617, and became a Cavalier poet in the mould of Ben Jonson, mixing in literary circles in London. He was ordained in 1623 and subsequently appointed by Charles I to the living of Dean Prior in Devon, where he lived in the reluctant seclusion of country life and wrote some of his best work. In 1647, under the Commonwealth, Herrick was expelled from the priory and returned to London, where he published his major work, Hesperides, the following year. With the restoration of Charles II in 1660 he was returned to Devon and died a bachelor in 1674. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Rich sampling of more than 120 works—characteristically charming, witty and graceful—by poets associated with the court of Charles I of England: Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling and Richard Lovelace. Includes such gems as Herrick’s "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time," Suckling’s "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?" and many more. Reprinted from standard editions.
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Engrossing
THE CAVALIER POETS is an anthology that explores the triumphalism and eroticism of professional soldiers.Herrick, Carew, Suckling, and Lovelace portray the sensibilities of patriotic officers torn between their loved ones and military service.The text itself is in big easy-to-read print with just enough explanatory material to inform without distracting.I heartily recommend this inexpensive and entertaining volume.It resurrects a neglected genre and makes it accessible to virtually any reader.

King Charles' Favorite Classical Poets.
Ben Jonson was the ideal Cavalier poet and died in 1637.Robert Herrick was one of his ardent followers.This was a great era for 'carpe diem' poetry.Herrick added 'joie de vivre' to amorous songs, and some of his poetry don't sound like they were written by an Episcopal minister.

Thomas Carew was an admirer of John Donne who fathered the metaphysical form of writing poems.His society verses were popular with the nobility, prized for their petulant wit.He made an important contribution to the 17th century genre of poems about country homes, an important aspect of the Cavalier poets repertoire.

Most of John Suckling's poems were published in a posthumous volume after he committed suicide in 1642.His verse smacks of the court, being witty, decorous, sometimes naughty; all requisites for the courtier poet.Though his 'oeuvre' is comparitively small, he is an exemplary lyric poet, as well as one of the most vivid personalities of his age.They all prevaricated and exaggered, as was common at the time, but they were favorites of the court of King Charles, the essential Cavalier of them all.

Richard Lovelace spent much time in prison but he wrote lovely, lyrical poetry and uniquely philosophical views which saw him to his untimely death in poverty.His poems display the poet's subtle sense of humor and eye for natural imagery.This is a nice little volume for the student of literature.

A perfection of light elegance
This is how the back book-jacket describes the book, " In the mid- seventeenth century, the poets associated with the court of Charles I of England, kinown as the Cavaliers, were strongly influenced by the Cassicism of Ben Jonson. Their verse , often concerned with the vagaries of love, is characteristically charming, witty, graceful and elegant. This volume contains a rich sampling of more than 120 works by four Cavalier poets: Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling and Richard Lovelace.
The work also contains brief biographical sketches of the four poets. Among the works are such well- known often anthologized pieces as Herrick's ' Gather ye rosebuds while ye may' , Suckling's'Why so Pale and Wan Fair Lover? ' Carew's ' A Cruel Mistress' Herrick's ' Delight in Disorder', Lovelace's 'Lucasta poems'.
Enjoyable reading.

Poems of Europe
Great collection of the works of many authors in Europe.Herrick, Lovelace, and more. ... Read more

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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Robert Herrick is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Robert Herrick then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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ROBERT HERRICK: SELECTED POEMS

ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674) was one of the Cavalier poets (other Cavalier poets included Suckling, Carew and Lovelace). He was born in London and lived much of his life in the rough remoteness of a parish in Devonshire. He studied at Cambridge (St John’s College and Trinity Hall). His law studies were dropped in 1623, and he was ordained as a deacon and priest in 1624.

Herrick’s major work, Hesperides or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., was published in 1648. There are some 1130 poems in the first, secular part, Hesperides, and 272 in Noble Numbers, the religious pieces.

Herrick’s poetry (his Hesperides) followed the plan outlined the poem ‘The Argument of His Book’, with its lyrical evocation of the natural world. Herrick was particularly well situated, geographically, to write nature poetry. Like Coleridge, Wordsworth and Brontë, Herrick lived in the midst of the countryside, in the relative isolation of Dean Prior, on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.

There are many poems in Robert Herrick’s work of love - about love desired, lost and mourned. Herrick is very definitely a ‘Muse poet’, to use Robert Graves’s term. There are many poems about various mistresses, ‘my dearest Beauties’ he calls them in ‘To My Lovely Mistresses’ (Anthea, Perilla, Electra, Blanch, Judith, Silvia, and the most beloved of all, Julia).

There are many poems to certain ‘muses’ or ‘maidens’. The sheer number (and quality) of Herrick’s poems to Julia attests to his deep passion forthe friendship and strength of women: ‘To Julia’, ‘To Roses in Julia’s Bosom’, ‘To Julia, Her Dawn, or Daybreak’, ‘The Parliament of Roses to Julia’, ‘Upon Julia’s Recovery’, ‘On Julia’s Fall’, ‘His Sailing From Julia’, ‘Her Legs’, ‘Her Bed’, ‘On Julia’s Picture’, ‘The Bracelet to Julia’, ‘To Julia in the Temple’ and so on.

Apart from poems addressed ‘To His Book’, there are more poems in Robert Herrick’s output ‘To Julia’ than to anything else. Julia is ‘the prime of Paradise’ (‘To Julia, in Her Dawn, orDay-breake’). She is utterly adored, often erotically. There are poems which eulogize her breasts and nipples, for instance: ‘Display thy breasts.../ Between whose glories, there my lips I’ll lay,/ Ravisht’, he writes (in ‘Upon Julia’s Breasts’); other paeans to Julia’s breasts include ‘Upon the Roses in Julia’s Bosom’, and ‘Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast’.

Herrick makes the age-old connections between the fertility of nature outside (the rain, the lush vegetation, the rivers of the Paradisal Earth) and the bounty of women inside (Julia’s breasts form a valley of abundance, as in William Shakespeare’s ‘Venus and Adonis’, in which the poet would like to languish). Women in Herrick’s poetry are seen as the givers of pleasure (expressed as sex), nurturance (breast milk), and all things worthy in the world (love). ‘All Pleasures meet in Woman-kind’, he writes in ‘On Himself’. They are just as important in his poetry as God, the King or Christianity.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Originally published in 1904.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:IllThe summer wore away into a sunny, windless autumn. Day after day the lake lay like an unruffled, velvet pool, touching smoothly the black rocks, laced around its shores by the shadows from the encircling forest. The hotel across the bay, bereft of flaunting flags, had been deserted; the transient gayety of holiday life on the water had altogether disappeared. All the camps were closed except the Eyrie, whose mistress chafed at her enforced delay in the wilderness. The sick girl was about once more, — in the sunlight on the sheltered veranda, before the blazing fire. But the strange Wild One, as Vera Councillor had named the doctor, did not relax his domination. Having won the first battle for life itself with a flourish of trumpets, as it were, he was engaged in another, greater struggle, — a silent struggle in the autumnal peace for the true balance of mind that would mean health. Patient and doctor must go down together into the trough of despair, — that point of danger hinted at by the city physicians, — and meet there the darker enemies of life. More and more while this subtle hidden battle for full health was going on the doctor kept his patient apart from the others, took her in his canoe up the lake on little expeditions where she might lie in solitude and drink in the healing light and air undisturbed.As the two women stood on the piazza one afternoon andwatched the doctor's canoe disappear around the little headland, there was an added frown on the wrinkled brow of Mrs. Goodnow, accentuating her habitual criticism of life. She disapproved of the Wild One and all his works, and if she dared would have forbidden these excursions. The younger woman, watching the small craft float out of sight in the yellow blaze of the afternoon sun, smiled to herself. She compre... ... Read more

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The Healer

Eric Holden is a physician who has decided to live deep in the woods away from civilization, administering to lumberjacks and the like. One day he saves the life of a vacationing wealthy woman by means of a daring brain operation (in a rustic retreat in the woods!); they fall in love during her long convalescence, and marry. At first everything is great, but gradually Nell misses her old ways. She tries to get Eric to move to the city, but he refuses. She then tries, more successfully, to bring the city (or at least potential patients with money) to them: she helps get a hospital built and a railroad into the area. Still, when she has children, she spends more and more time away with them in the city. The marriage falters; they separate. Eric represents for Herrick an ideal individual: the doctor who wants to truly serve the needy and cares nothing for material wealth. But if Nell is supposed to be the villain with her opposite views, he draws her with very sympathetic lines. She is very patient at first, living in isolation quite a long while with little complaint. And why wouldn't a mother want the advantages of city life for her children over living in an isolated cabin? Holden often comes across as a bully and is unable to explain to Nell the great appeal he feels for the type of life he wants to live. You have to wonder why they married in the first place. Much of the dialogue and action are stiff - even some of the most intimate scenes between Eric and Nell as their young love is blossoming is stodgy. Herrick seems more interested in an idea, an ideal, here, and fails to develop it in the context of a novel. Not one of his better works. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The lawyer accepted the information without remark, and hung up his telephone. He may have wondered what had brought about this change of heart in his cousin, but later, when the news of the engagement reached him, he understood. For he knew Helen in a way better than her lover did,--knew her as one knows the desired and unattainable. ... Read more

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Personal ethics vs. Greed

This is a novel about a man whose ethical standards are blindsided and overcome by material greed. Jackson Hart, a Chicago architect, comes to the conclusion that in order to make the money he craves for his expensive tastes he needs to lower the standards in the buildings he creates. After shoddy materials are used in one of his projects, the building burns down in a disastrous fire. Hart's wife Helen, however, is appalled by her husband's moral decay and demands that he serve "penance" by not disappearing to Mexico or the like (Hart's initial solution to his problems), but facing the consequences of the fire head-on. It's her strength that pulls him back onto the straight and narrow, and at the end he is seen doing decent work for "the common lot," often without pay. This goes too far to remain credible, and the idealism of Helen's beliefs is in some regard also taken too much to the extreme - for example when she denies her children the advantages due them for her austere beliefs. But Herrick drew a formidable character in Helen Hart, and when she's on the scene the book is at its best. Sentimental in spots and sometimes wooden in character development, the novel is still interesting and makes a forceful statement against moral decline in pursuit of the mighty dollar. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The whole conscious world has had the manifestations of the new barbarism before its eyes for an entire year and more. It has recoiled in disgust from the invasion of Belgium, the sinking of the Lusitania, the shooting of Edith Cavell, from the wanton destruction of monuments. All these barbarities are indisputable facts, which may be explained and extenuated, but cannot be denied. There is another class of barbarities,--the so-called "atrocities,"--which are more easily denied, but which most people who have taken the trouble to examine the charges know to be equally true. ... Read more